On the surface, David Mamet’s 1992 drama “Oleanna” is a play about social politics, with themes ranging from political correctness and women’s rights to class privilege and “the white ...

The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced Thursday that the recent Broadway production of David Mamet’s ‘Oleanna’ will be eligible in the Best Revival of a Play category.

The play's title begins to make some sense here, ironically referring to the name of a Norwegian folk song about a Utopian American settlement. Johnny Lee Davenport in "Oleanna" at New Rep.

These are some of the questions around which Oleanna dances. ITP’s staging of the play has the two characters both facing the audience, the stage split by white electrical tape. Professor John ...

Mamet's play premiered the year after the Anita Hill ... with his 1975 "American Buffalo" slated for next fall. "Oleanna," which was adapted into a film in 1994, raises many more questions than ...

Julia Stiles first played the role of life-wrecker Carol in "Oleanna" when she was in college, and the play, about a confused student who accuses her professor of sexual impropriety, stuck with ...

A year after those hearings, the play "Oleanna" by David Mamet opened, a piece that dealt with a similar confrontation, this time between a male professor named John and his young female student ...

"Oleanna" will be on the Limelight Theatre stage from Jan. 13 to 29 for the first production of 2023. A preview of the play, written by David Mamet and directed by David Buchman, will be Jan. 12.

David Mamet’s play “Oleanna” revolves around a young woman’s claim that her college professor sexually abused her during a meeting in his office. It premiered in 1992, shortly after the ...

The play and the movie Oleanna has haunted me since college. Now, I maybe have After the Hunt to give me a better version of what David Mamet tried to do. And I’d rather see Luca Guadagnino’s ...

The stage is set, the lights dim and, as the curtain rises on David Mamet’s 1992 play Oleanna, we are thrust into a world where every word is a loaded weapon, every silence a battlefield.